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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <2910@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 18 May 89 20:31:28 GMT
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In article <2015@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> gis@datlog.co.uk ( Ian Stewartson ) writes:
>In passing, I noticed that the SOED defines a dollar with two vertical lines
>and not the single line on my keyboard.

This is misc.misc material, but I don't dare open that floodgate...
we'd be discussing how David is doing under that mountain of postcards
within the week.

Okay.  Look at a T-bill.  Don't got one?  neither do I.  It was a joke.
Look close at the old-style federal checks (is it on the new one), although
my description should be enough:  that S// sort of $ is actually an S
with a U drawn over it.  The rest is the history of degenerated graphics.

				--Blair
				  "And here are all these loons
				   writing alphabetics with meaningless
				   slashes through them just to copy..."